You are right, dear Judy, that is a hot brand. I am a bit confused, because this is the brand of one of Germany's regional studbooks ( W = Westfalia ); our dear Gilla, born in the Rhineland had a hot brand showing an "I" with a little crown about it.
A "new" hot brand doesn't look that "nice" , but the iron seems to be that hot, that the foals definitly rather don't realize what's going on. We had some of our foals branded at the farm, most of them without keeping them with a rope. The whole procedure is a very fast one and the only reaction of the foals has always been a look back and a "peculiar,my backside is smoking" Barbara Chuang Tzu: "Your life has a limit but knowledge has none. If you use what is limited to pursue what has no limit, you will be in danger".
